Shanthi Thambiah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shanthi Thambiah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shanthi |
| FAMILY NAME | Thambiah |
| SIGNATURE | THAMBIAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Production Targets, Coercive Control, and Bargaining with Public Patriarchy in Readymade Garment Factories in Bangladesh
This article unpacks how public patriarchy, coercive control, and violence as disciplinary tools in the supply chain push women workers to deliver on production targets in ready-made garment factories. Data from in-depth interviews with female workers ( n = 20), key-informant interviews with factory managers and supervisors ( n = 6) and labor rights activists ( n = 2) reveal that gender-based job segregation and coercive control shape the product…
Fleeting Agencies
Reviewed by: Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta Shanthi Thambiah Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. By Arunima Datta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 254 pp. ISBN 9781108837385 This book is a valuable contribution to Women’s Social History in Malaya especially of coolie women, who are not spoken about in current day Malaysian history…
Globalization and the health and well-being of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Neoliberal globalization contributes to the out-migration of labour from sending countries in the global South. Supported by multilateral organizations including the IMF and World Bank, the migration and development nexus holds that nations and households in migrant sending countries can migrate their way out of poverty. Two countries that embrace this paradigm, the Philippines and Indonesia, are major suppliers of migrant labour incl…
Kinship and Semelai Residential Arrangements
By examining two villages in Pos Iskandar, Tasek Bera, the article shows that Semelai have a sense of grouping based on consanguinity, where parents, married children and siblings live in proximity, which traditionally formed a kampong (village). This contributes to the resilience of the communal land tenure system. Today, however, land is seen as property and this has led to its informal inclusion in the Semelai concept of pesakak manah (inherit…
Reclaiming the Eclipsed Female in the Sacred
This article examines an indigenous religion in Malaysia-that of the Semai of Kampung Chang, Sungai Gepai in Bidor, Perak-and expounds the changes in women's position in Semai cosmology, rituals, and roles. We show that the Bidor Semai religion is neither hierarchical nor egalitarian in terms of the position of women and men; rather, a much more complex situation exists. However, while male authority is becoming more prevalent, the existence of t…
Negotiating male gatekeeper violence in team-based research on Bangladeshi migrant women in Malaysia
While the field of migration studies is expanding to understand the nuanced experiences of women across Asia, there has been little discussion of how these studies were conducted. This article draws on the reflective accounts of three researchers on a team project investigating the lived experiences of female Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. While the research aims centred on understanding the lives of the Bangladeshi migrant women, the t…
Household Formation and Egalitarian Gender Relations among the Bhuket of Central Borneo
This paper explores the role played by Bhuket women in the formation of the household, I attempt to show that in this society, the household as it is commonly understood, does not exist. Having been a very mobile hunting and gathering people, the notion of a living arrangement is non—concrete and fluid among the Bhuket. I have examined the concept of the household as emerging from the concept kajan, which refers to a space shared by a group of in…
Kinship and Semelai Residential Arrangements
By examining two villages in Pos Iskandar, Tasek Bera, the article shows that Semelai have a sense of grouping based on consanguinity, where parents, married children and siblings live in proximity, which traditionally formed a kampong (village). This contributes to the resilience of the communal land tenure system. Today, however, land is seen as property and this has led to its informal inclusion in the Semelai concept of pesakak manah (inherit…
Household Formation and Egalitarian Gender Relations among the Bhuket of Central Borneo
This paper explores the role played by Bhuket women in the formation of the household, I attempt to show that in this society, the household as it is commonly understood, does not exist. Having been a very mobile hunting and gathering people, the notion of a living arrangement is non—concrete and fluid among the Bhuket. I have examined the concept of the household as emerging from the concept kajan, which refers to a space shared by a group of in…
Negotiating male gatekeeper violence in team-based research on Bangladeshi migrant women in Malaysia
While the field of migration studies is expanding to understand the nuanced experiences of women across Asia, there has been little discussion of how these studies were conducted. This article draws on the reflective accounts of three researchers on a team project investigating the lived experiences of female Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. While the research aims centred on understanding the lives of the Bangladeshi migrant women, the t…
Household Formation and Egalitarian Gender Relations among the Bhuket of Central Borneo
This paper explores the role played by Bhuket women in the formation of the household, I attempt to show that in this society, the household as it is commonly understood, does not exist. Having been a very mobile hunting and gathering people, the notion of a living arrangement is non—concrete and fluid among the Bhuket. I have examined the concept of the household as emerging from the concept kajan, which refers to a space shared by a group of in…
Negotiating male gatekeeper violence in team-based research on Bangladeshi migrant women in Malaysia
While the field of migration studies is expanding to understand the nuanced experiences of women across Asia, there has been little discussion of how these studies were conducted. This article draws on the reflective accounts of three researchers on a team project investigating the lived experiences of female Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. While the research aims centred on understanding the lives of the Bangladeshi migrant women, the t…
Reclaiming the Eclipsed Female in the Sacred
This article examines an indigenous religion in Malaysia-that of the Semai of Kampung Chang, Sungai Gepai in Bidor, Perak-and expounds the changes in women's position in Semai cosmology, rituals, and roles. We show that the Bidor Semai religion is neither hierarchical nor egalitarian in terms of the position of women and men; rather, a much more complex situation exists. However, while male authority is becoming more prevalent, the existence of t…
Kinship and Semelai Residential Arrangements
By examining two villages in Pos Iskandar, Tasek Bera, the article shows that Semelai have a sense of grouping based on consanguinity, where parents, married children and siblings live in proximity, which traditionally formed a kampong (village). This contributes to the resilience of the communal land tenure system. Today, however, land is seen as property and this has led to its informal inclusion in the Semelai concept of pesakak manah (inherit…
Fleeting Agencies
Reviewed by: Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya by Arunima Datta Shanthi Thambiah Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. By Arunima Datta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 254 pp. ISBN 9781108837385 This book is a valuable contribution to Women’s Social History in Malaya especially of coolie women, who are not spoken about in current day Malaysian history…
Globalization and the health and well-being of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Neoliberal globalization contributes to the out-migration of labour from sending countries in the global South. Supported by multilateral organizations including the IMF and World Bank, the migration and development nexus holds that nations and households in migrant sending countries can migrate their way out of poverty. Two countries that embrace this paradigm, the Philippines and Indonesia, are major suppliers of migrant labour incl…
Production Targets, Coercive Control, and Bargaining with Public Patriarchy in Readymade Garment Factories in Bangladesh
This article unpacks how public patriarchy, coercive control, and violence as disciplinary tools in the supply chain push women workers to deliver on production targets in ready-made garment factories. Data from in-depth interviews with female workers ( n = 20), key-informant interviews with factory managers and supervisors ( n = 6) and labor rights activists ( n = 2) reveal that gender-based job segregation and coercive control shape the product…
Sociology (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)